Monthly Archives: April 2014

Popular Science: The Week In UAS: Rescuing A Puppy In January, a drone helped firefighters at a quarry in Stony Creek, Connecticut. After that incident, the fire department acquired its own Phantom Vision drone. Last week, that drone helped save a puppy. A 1-year-old beagle pup named Harley got stuck in the cattails of a [...]

Dayton Business Journal: UAS Swarm Over Downtown Dayton Fire It was sort of a shock for me to hear the now-familiar buzz of a quadcopter as I stepped out of my car last night. Like everyone else downtown, I was stunned at the enormous column of smoke rising from the factory district near downtown just [...]

SavannahNow: UAS Hunt Atlantic Fish Off the coast of Georgia last week, researchers and pilots from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration tested the ability of a small unmanned aircraft — a drone — to conduct fish population surveys. “It’s a proof of concept mission,” said Joe Smith, leader of menhaden sampling for the [...]

International Business Times: South African Drones Aim To Ease Johannesburg’s Congested Traffic After years of traffic problems have earned Johannesburg the unfortunate distinction as one of the world’s top 10 congested cities, two local media outlets will turn to drones to track the South African city’s traffic as part of concept project, the companies announced [...]

Baltimore Sun: Students Teach Robotics to Area CEOs Antonio Harrell signed up to design and build competition robots at Dunbar High School because, he says, he “didn’t have anything else to do.” Three years later, the 18-year-old senior has gotten so good at engineering robots, he’s teaching Baltimore’s business leaders how to use them. “He [...]

Guardian: Humanitarian UAS to Deliver Medical Supplies to Roadless Areas When Domino’s sent two pepperoni pizzas on a 10-minute drone flight last summer in a publicity stunt to demonstrate how takeaways may be delivered in the future, Andreas Raptopoulos reacted with scorn. “This is total nonsense. Why the hell would you do that? The public [...]